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Washing Horses.

The custom in some countries of wash
ing horses in hot weather deserves some
consideration. A horse covered with per-
spiration, dry in patches, it may be, and
covered with dust, must feel refreshed, as
well as man, if the bathing be done at
the proper time and care exercised after
wards. The method | adopt is thus de-
scribed: As soon as the horse is taken out
and harness removed, he is scraped down
carefully. Then bucket of tepid water
il placed at hand aud the horse is sponged
all over quickly; after this he is rinsed
down with Watering pot of tepid water,
scraped and rubbed. Then some clean
straw is placed over the back and loins, and
over this light horse rug, and the horse
is put into his stall No draught is per-
mitted of course.
Reaction takes place in the capillaries of
the skin, and the horse get dry and sleek.
He will now enjoy his feel aud beverage
and takes his rest with enjoyment When
wanted again he will be found free from
marks of harness, presenting a glossy coat
Some people are against washing, and
Justly so when it is done by lazy louts
but when it is done by an tive groom
there is no risk, and the animal must be
much the better than when allowed to dry
off in perspiration and dust, The custoa
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SHEEP AND LAMBs.-Sheep are now
painfully worried by the gadfy. Give
them shelter and low, close shed to
hubble in, where they can evade the pest.
Where the tick prevails this is good
time to dip both sheep and lambs. Re-
move the rams, if any are kept, from the
flock, and put the eve lambs by them
selves with the wethers. Ewes coupled in
October will lamb in March. If lambs
are not desired so early, keep the
rams separate. 1t is best to keep
the rams in a separate lot and only turn
in the ewes at night. All sheep intended
for market should be sold at once; every
days delay is a loss of profit To keep old
sheep is a waste of food. Examine the
feet and pare them when undergrown with
loose decayed horn, and shorten the two
long toes. This prevents foot-rot. Give
breeding sheep extra feed; bran is the
best and heapest.-Rural Nesc Yorker.
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Running the Gantlet.

An interview by an Albany Journal cor.
respondent with woman customs inspector
at New York brought out these interesting
facts
Very often We have had to be on the
wharves at in the morning, rain or shine,
and there have been nights when we used
the latch-keys to our homes at midnight.
How are We led to suspect passengers? By
their faces and contours. The vast ma
Jority OF women who smuggle seldom turn
their faces from the inspectress. | inva-
riably say to the woman suspected: Il am
afraid you have dutiable goods on your
person" They tap their bodices and in
vite me to examine them, and if | call at
tentlon to their busties, saying that they
look unusually large, they say that the size
is the latest from Paris. Some women, no
matter how warm it is, wear heavy ulsters,
and when ask them if they do rot wish to
remove them they graciously reply: "Oh,
no; | am quite comfortable" We can al
ways tell the guilty ones by the way they
sit down. The stiffness with which they
use their bodies is not compatible with the
graceful carriage of the head and arms and
they are Immediately suspected Of having
goods concealed about their skirts. A.; >
rule they are mighty cool. Very few cry.
Their methods of concealment are many.
Lace Is wound around their forms inside
their corsets, and with thin women the cur
Natures in their corsets are packed with
rolls of lace. They stuff their stockings
with ribbons. Others partial to lace cur
tains have had their skirts made of them
The bonnets with plums for ornaments
when dissected are found to contain dia-
monds. Some false heels to shoes have
been discovered. Inside, packed in cot
ton, have been found diamonds of the pu-
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A Bounty on Wheat.

New England, having grown enormously
rich IN manufacturing by persuading the
United States Government to force con-
sumers to pay it 81 80 for goods that are
worth only 81, proposes now to 60 into the
ship-building and ship-sailing business on
similar terms. 1t wants Congress to give
every ship-owner 80 cents a ton for every
1000 miles he runs his ship. If he builds
3,000-ton steamer he will get $4,000 for
every round trip to a South American port
5000 miles distant. This would he very
pretty buslness-so pleasant that its bene-
hts ought to be extended to other Ameri-
can citizens than those who 1--we on the
Atlantic coast. Western farmers can't go
into the shipping business Even if they
were to build ships, they would encounter
many difficulties in sailing them over their
prairies and through their forests. But
they will take their share of Government
protection in the shape of stiff bounty
say 10 cents bushel-on all the grain
they raise. Farming is not always profit
able in the West. Frequently it costs
more to raise bushel of grain than it
sells for, and many farmer finds that get
ting 81 for an acre of wheat and IS for an
acre of corn is poor business-quite as poor
as building ships without bounty is in
New England. II, therefore, the Govern
ment is to pay premium for building
ships on the Atlantic coast, it ought to ex-
tend the policy to the West, and pay
premium for raising corn and whea. in
kansas.-lS. Louis Republican (Dem.).
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Do Americans Work Too Harde

1t is said that the American people work
harder toobtain the almighty DOLLAR than
any other people or nation in the world,
while they are more lavish in spending
when they get it. This may be true or
not, but they certainly get more dollars for
the same work than any other people, and
they are not generally penurious in spend
ing them for their own comfort and pleas
ure, or mean in appropriating them for
charity and all good works. 1t is GER
taiIrly true, also, that many professional
and business men, lawyers and doctors,
merchants, etc, including some public Off
Gals, especially in our large cities, work
too hard and destroy their health, by both
mental and physical exertion, protracted
for too long time without proper recrea-
ton. The workingmen and laboring
classes also complain Of working too hard,
and the great question of the day are those
of 4" labor and wages" which claim atten-
ton through STRIKES" labor organizations
socialistic and anarchical demonstrations.
The question, Do Americans work too
hard? requires distinction to be made
between natives and foreigners who form
so large portion of the population of the
United States. Foreigners principally
perform what is considered the hardest
work, building railroads, mining coal and
other laborious employment, and whether
they work too hard, in fact, or harder than
Americans generally in other occupations,
is question which might be considered
by itself. They probably do not work
harder in this than in their own country
or they would not continue to come here
in such large numbers. Both Americans
and foreigners, however, will probably
claim that they have to work too hard"
City Comptroller L0ep in the Epoch
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CHAMELEON COLOR = The complex
mechanism of the chameleon's changing
hues is thus described by Grant Allen:
Tiny corpuscles of different pigments are
sometimes hidden in the depths of the
chameleon's skin, and sometimes spread
out on its surface in an interlacing net
work of brown or purple. In addition to
this prime coloring-matter, however, the
animal also possesses a yellow pigment,
and blueish layer in the skin, which acts
like the iridium glass SO largely employed
by DR.. Salyiati, being seen as straw-col-
oled with transmitted light, but assum-
Ing faint lilac tint against an opaque sur
face. While sleeping, the chameleon be-
comes almost white in the shade, but if
light falls upon him he slowly darkens by
an automatic process. The movements of
the corpuscles are governed by opposite
nerves and muscles which either cause
them to bury themselves under the true
skin, or to form an Opaque ground behind
the blue layer, or to spread out in raIni-
flying mass on the outer surface, and so
produce almost any necessary shade of
gray, green, black or yellow.
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Ventilation of SleepInr-Room-.

There are few houses the rooms of which
are so situated as to render good ventila-
ton impossible, and the influence of this
practice upon the health of inmates is too
important to permit being neglected from
any slight cause. A bed-chamber should
be Invested of all unnecessary furniture.
and, unless of considerable size, should
never contain more than one bed. There
cannot be a more pernicious custom than
that pursued by some-indeed, by many
families-of having their children sleep
in small apartments, with two, and some
times with three, beds crowded into the
same room. 1t is scarcely necessary to OBJ
serve that cleanliness, in the most extern
sive Specification of the term, is, if posi-
bic, even more necessary with reference to
the bed-chamber than with almost any
other apartment in the whole house.
The practice of sleeping in a room which
is occupied during the day time IS ex-
tremely unwise. Perfect cleanliness and
sufficient free ventilation cannot, under
such circumstances, be preserved, especially
during cold weather; hence the atmos-
phere becomes constantly more vitiated,
and altogether unfit for respiration. While
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A GARDEN ACoUrsITIoN-The Lucre-
tia dewberry is a real acquisition in the
way of fruits. In quality it is better than
any high-bush blackberry | have tried. 1t
is earlier than the Wilson, and large,
noble-looking berry. 1 do not see how it
can be grown well without stakes, but it
does not need any more care than our
choicest raspberries. Cut back when about
two or three feet in growth, and the arms
cut in. | should tie the main stalk or vine
to stake four feet high. 1t is really a
handsome vine in its spring Towering, and
if one prefers, it can be grown as cover
ing to rockeries. | have in one case grown
it alongside hedge, occasionally tying it
to the hedge. l should judge that it
would be particularly fine as a covering for
stone fences. The foliage is glossy and
very attractive, as well as the berries.
There is no failure in cropping, as there is
no blackberry more prohibit is simply
loaded with fruit-E. p. PoreH, IN hide
pendent.
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RICE VS.. OATMEAL.-The Boston Record
informs us that rice is taking the place OF
oatmeal in this country, and that oatmeal
is not approved by most thinking hygien-
lists. We are also told that rice is more
easily digested, nutritious and withal
amiable food than oatmeal. This is news
paper chemistry, which generally is wrong.
There may be objections to oatmeal, but to
say that rice IS more nutritious is simple
nonsense. Oatmeal only lacks fat to make
a perfect food, and this can readily be
added by butter. Rice, on the other hand,
lacks not only fat, but all albumenoids.
See the analysis of the two Oatmeal con-
tains higher percentage of albumenoids
than any other grain, viz: 126, that OF
wheat being 10.S, and of rice none, and
less of starch, 5S4, as against 66.3 in
wheat and 500 in rice. 1t has rather
more sugar, 5.4, wheat having only ~ and
a good deal more fat, viz: sc, against 30
in flour, and in rice 0.S. Lastly, salts
amount to 80 per cent. in oats, but only
IL in wheat, and 09 in rice As the
value of a food depends entirely upon its
albumenoids, it is clearly seen that oat-
meal is infinitely superior to all other
cereals.-AmericaH Analyst.
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That Family BIZ.

When | was a school teacher | was pres
ent on one occasion when the yearly bill
from the general dry goods store of the
Deighborhood was brought in to the head
of the family, we'll TODD farmer, who
drove pair of fine horses when he went to
town, expected to entertain the ministers
at least some of them, when the general
conference met-and held sort of leading
position in the community. The bill in
the year amounted to $50, and represented
the materials bought by the wife for her
self, for two little girls, and for family use
for twelve months-all carefully itemized
Its reception destroyed the peace of the
family for that day. The man said many
ugly words, charging his wife with dis
position TO effect his ruin, and she herself
was somewhat appalled, by the sum total of
a bill the extent of which she had not
anticipated.
After her husbands departure for the
fields she sat down to study it out. There
was piece of printed calico which had
been made up by her own hands into
dresses for herself and little girls; there
was piece of unbleached muslin which
had been made up into sheets and pillow
cases; there were shoes, hosiery, one pair
of cotton gloves, but SIS and some odd
cents were covered by socks, neckties and
shirtings for the two male members of the
family-father and son. For days the man
stormed and ragged whenever the chill
was alluded to, and it was week before
his wife could induce him to examine it.
and see that he himself was responsible for
the largest part of it, the items not cover
ing any of his own or his sons important
articles of clothing. This occurrence made
deep impression on my mind Chicago
Herald
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of washing legs is not Objectionable if the
legs are rubbed dry, but when tepid water
is used with elbow grease to well dry the
legs and heels especially, it is beneficial.
1t is only condemned because grooms do
not dry the heels, and the heels get
chilled, crack and scratches develop. No
horse should be put up for the night with
dirty feet or heofs. The feet should be
washed out carefully, and the grit removed
from under the shoes; the coronet sbould
be examined to see if any cut or tread ex-
lists. Many cases of lockiaw might have
been prevented had this care been taken
and the slight cut attended to at once.
The underpart of the tail should be
sponged every morning and evening.
Neglect Of this explains why horses rub
their tails bare and make such sorry
sights. The name also should be washed
at times, as we'll as brushed.-Gegma,,tomn
TeeqrdDh
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FATTENING TURKEYs.-The following
is description of the way in which tur-
keys are fattened in. Norfolk, which is the
great English county for breeding these
birds, and preparing them for the London
markets: Turkeys for Christmas are shut
up in light, dry and roomy house the
first week in November; troughs with as
much maize and good Farley as they can
eat should always be by them, and they
have two good meals day Of Just as much
barley meal mixed with flat milk as they
can eat, and milk to drink. Sliced man
gels, turnips, swedes and cabbage are use
full and necessary, and plenty of lime.
sand, ashes and brick-dust should e kept
in the corners of the house. 1t is found to
be most important that the troughs be well
cleaned out every morning, all surplus
food removed, for on farm there are usu-
ally plenty of other fowls to eat up what
is left by the turkeys. Fed in this way
they rapidly pet on flesh, which is usually
very white in color and fine in TEXTURE
S. Bedle in Country Gentleman
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MISCELLANEOUS.
pYSPEjpS {A

Causes its victims TO be i7.>craho. hareioss
confused, and depressed in lailid. yery ir.-ita-
bic, languid, and drowsy. Ii is d disease
which does not get well o. itself. 1t regpnes
careful, persistent attention, ard 4 remedy to
throw off the causes and tone up the diges-
tive organs till they perform their duties
willingly. Hoods Sarsaparilla has proven
just the required remedy in hundreds of cases.
"Ihave taken Hoods Sarsaparilla for dys-
pepsia, from which have suffered two years.
tried many other medicines, but none proved
so satisfactory as Hoods Sarsaparilla."
THOMAS COOK, Brush Electric Light Co.,
New York City.
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SALT IN KANsAs.-We have before us a

SALT IN KANsAs-We have before us a
report of a paper read before the recent
meeting of the State Academy of Science,
at Topeka, on the salt deposits of Els
worth county, by Professor Bailey, chemist
of the State University. The facts are
these; 4 company was formed at Ellsworth
last summer for the purpose of boring
veil, and the drilling began on August
Both, and has now reached a depth OF
l,250 feet. At $50 feet vein of rock salt
was struck so feet in thickness. Then
stratum of gray slate, five feet thick, inter
venes, and then 90 feet of rock salt, or 149
feet Of rock salt within 656 feet of the surf
ace. The salt is dry, hard and clean, and
Professor Bailey gives its analysis as fol-
lows: Sodic chloride salt, 1915; water,
10; calcic sulphate. l.21; calcic chloride,
80; magnesic sulphate, .0S; potasic chic
ride, 81 insoluble matter, % calcic car
Donate, a trace. The sample analyzed was
taken from the drill hole, and of necessity,
was somewhat contaminated with the
debris from the slate above, but it will be
seen by comparison that it is very pure
Professor Bailey found the pure salt to be
974 per cent. in the specimens brought to
the surface, and sample now before us
looks like fine table salt-KansaS C;ty
Journal
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USEFUL IF TRuE-A fly always walks
upward. Put fly on window and up he
goes toward the top; he can't be made to
walk downward. My friend made WIN
dow screen, divided in half. The upper
half Tapped over the lower, with an inch
of space between. Well, as soon as fly
would light on the screen he would pro
coed to travel upward, and would thus
walk straight out DOORS On reaching the
top of the lower half he would go outside.
Not being able to walk down he had no
way to return to the room. By this means
room can be quickly cleared of flies,
which always seek the light ogection-
ers' Journal
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EFFECTS OF ARSENIC EATING.-The
Herald Of Health affirms that the exact
state of things brought about by arsenic
eating is diminution of the strength of
the blood the capillary blood vessels are
stopped from working, the ends of the
blood vessels are killed, no blood is sup
piled to the skin, and the real reason for
its white, transparent state is that it is
practically dead.
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
MAMIE PUNISHED.

MAMIE PUNISHED.
Little Mamie eating candy,
Nursie gave her some
Chocolate cream drops, sugar almonds.
And candied plum.
Nursie saves the rest ITO morrow"
Says, Wen have a treat.
Too much candy makes US sickly:
Now no more we'll eat
Nursie singing 10 the baby,
Mamie climbing high,
Gets the bonbons, in corner
Eats them on the sly.
Mamie crying all the nighttime,
Sick and suffering pain;
Doctor gives her horrid doses,
Makes her well again.
E. S. IIiN
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A fortune-teller can hit woman's case
nine times out of ten: You've had sick
ness and trouble. You'll have some prop
erty fall to you. You do not have full
confidence in your husband. Beware! He
is deceiving you. You have very gentle
nature. Everybody loves you. You have
had trouble with a relative. 1t was not
your fault. Beware of blue-eyed woman
with mole on her left cheek She will
make you trouble. Good-by-one dollar
call again"
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Cheeseman's Specific Mixture

With this remedy persons can cure themselves
without tn least exposure. change Of dict OF
change in application 20 business The meii
enc contains nothing that is If tho least inlurv
20 the constitution. Ask your dru ggist for il
Price, 81 bottle, fe26.lyWs
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A COUGH, cold or sore throat requires i'm
mediate attention, as neglect results in
some incurAble lung disease. Browns
Bronchial rrochesn will invariably give re-
lief. Sold only in boxes.
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SAPOLIO

Is beyond value Those who try it know
Don't you want friend who would take half
your hard work eff your shoulders and do il
without murmur? Wha would you gre 10
find an assistant in your house work that woilld
keep your floors and walls clean, and your
kitchen bright. aud yet never grow u sly over
the matter of hard work. Sapolio is lust such
friend. and eau be boughs a, al groeers
No 80
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Sick Headache

"For the past two years have been
afflicted with severe headaches and dyspep-
STA. 1 was induced TO try Hoods Safsapa-
rilla, and have found great relief. cheer
fully recommend it to ALL" MRS. Z. +.
ANNABLE, New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Mary C. Smith, Cambridgeport, Mass,
was sufferer from dyspepsia and sick head
ache. She took Hoods Sarsaparilla and
found it the best remedy she ever used.
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XEIANTED-A SALESLADY FOR FANCY
w Goods and Small Ware department. APP
ply to Weinstock d Lubin, MIC st
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kMANTFD-A GIRL TO SELL IN CLOAK
w Department. Apply to Weinstock q
Lubin. nl6-3t
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WANTED-LOST-FOUND.

GITUATION WANTED BY MAN AND WIFE
flee. nj dts
EOUND-sOME HOGS FOUND ON MY
l. place, on the Brighton Road. Owner can
have them by proving property and paying ex-
penses. lnlS-St*i J. A Robin
T OST-If THIS CITY NOVEMBER 18TH. ON
i street between Sixth and Twelfth or IN,
5 -yenth street, between and X, Ladys
Gold Watch. ensmelled case; initials an. B."
The finder will please leave at No. lilo G street
and be rewarded. nl73t*
r AIDES ARE OFFERED PLAIN NEEDLE
Lwork at their own homes town or country
by wholesale house Profitable, genuine Good
pay can be made. Everything furnished. Par
5iculars free. Address Artistic Needlework Co >,
1855 Eighth ST, New York City ni16mMwF
AK ANTED LADY, ACTIVE AND INTELLI-
w gent, 20 represent in her own locality. an
old firm. References given and required. Per
manent POSITION and good salary. J. G.
BLANCHARD, Supt, so Reade St, n. Y.au204wM
SJhNTEp AN EXPERIENCED DRESS
Lubin. Mo st
kMANTFD-A GIRL TO SELL IN CLOAK
w Department. Apply to Weinstock Il
Lubin. nl6-3t
XEIANTED-A SALESLADY FOR FANCY
w Goods and Small Ware department. APP
ply to Weinstock d Lubin. nl6 st
.xyANTEG-AN UNFINISHED HOUSE OF
w four or five rooms Inquire at A. ID. Bow
ley & Co.'S, real estate agents, 429 street, Sac
laInento. nl5-6t
WANTED BUTTER MAKER ON A
w ranch. $50; blacksmith will ranch hands,
SIG; m cooks; walters; men to work on a
ranch by the year, wages $500. Female-A wait
rtss, $50; girl for chamber work: 10 girls for
housework. Apply to Employment Office cor
nef of ourth and X streets, Sacramento. n14-
WANTED - EMPLOYMENT FOR TWO
w teams; will haul sand or coal ashes Call
and get my prices. D. GARDNER. 4Ol l st. If